Data Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 175 175
Rank change year-on-year +20 0 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 295 305 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.38% 1.34% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 1.43% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 184 306
10th Percentile £249 £263 £198
25th Percentile £350 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £555 £566 £550
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 37 47
10th Percentile £12.51 £15.13 £12.41
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.98 £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.95 £19.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% -19.15% +33.33%
75th Percentile £28.88 £23.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £32.30 -
UK median hourly rate £21.65 £20.24 £23.70
% change year-on-year +6.99% -14.62% +23.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +29 79 £400 -13.68% 27
North of England +2 70 £431 +1.47% 38
Scotland +62 55 £465 +9.41% 17
North West +24 53 £425 +3.03% 21
Midlands +16 41 £375 -6.25% 23
South West -8 28 £425 -8.11% 18
West Midlands +10 24 £443 +10.69% 14
East of England +3 18 £410 -8.89% 15
East Midlands +14 17 £363 -3.33% 9
Yorkshire -17 14 £450 -10.00% 10
Northern Ireland 0 4 £338 -
Wales +11 3 - - 4
North East +6 2 £500 +9.59% 7
Data Analyst
UK

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 122 (41.36%) SQL
2 117 (39.66%) Business Intelligence
3 106 (35.93%) Power BI
3 106 (35.93%) Power Platform
4 96 (32.54%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (32.20%) Analytics
6 94 (31.86%) Finance
7 80 (27.12%) Social Skills
8 79 (26.78%) Data Analysis
9 66 (22.37%) Visualisation
10 61 (20.68%) Python
11 57 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (19.32%) Tableau
12 52 (17.63%) Data Quality
13 42 (14.24%) Data Management
13 42 (14.24%) Data Visualisation
14 39 (13.22%) Actionable Insight
15 38 (12.88%) Microsoft Excel
15 38 (12.88%) Data Modelling
16 37 (12.54%) Microsoft
16 37 (12.54%) Data Governance
17 34 (11.53%) Migration
18 33 (11.19%) Degree
19 32 (10.85%) JIRA
19 32 (10.85%) Alteryx
20 31 (10.51%) Agile
21 30 (10.17%) Legal
21 30 (10.17%) Data Analytics
21 30 (10.17%) Snowflake
22 29 (9.83%) Decision-Making

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (6.10%) SAS
2 9 (3.05%) Confluence
3 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 38 (12.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.37%) SPSS
3 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 106 (35.93%) Power Platform
2 30 (10.17%) Snowflake
3 22 (7.46%) Power Automate
4 21 (7.12%) Azure
5 14 (4.75%) PowerApps
6 11 (3.73%) Collibra
7 9 (3.05%) GCP
7 9 (3.05%) Google Analytics
8 8 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.03%) AWS
11 4 (1.36%) iPaaS
12 3 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.02%) Google Tag Manager
13 2 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (0.68%) OCI
13 2 (0.68%) SaaS
14 1 (0.34%) Amazon EMR
14 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (0.34%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) Intranet
2 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (35.93%) Power BI
2 57 (19.32%) Tableau
3 21 (7.12%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (6.78%) SQL Server
5 17 (5.76%) Data Lake
6 16 (5.42%) Data Mining
7 14 (4.75%) Qlik Sense
8 9 (3.05%) Big Data
9 8 (2.71%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.71%) Metadata
10 7 (2.37%) Ataccama
10 7 (2.37%) BigQuery
10 7 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (2.03%) Impala
11 6 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (1.69%) MS Access
12 5 (1.69%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.69%) Power Query
12 5 (1.69%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 32 (10.85%) JIRA
2 9 (3.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.69%) PyCharm
4 4 (1.36%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.68%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.68%) ERwin
7 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
General
1 96 (32.54%) Analytical Skills
2 94 (31.86%) Finance
3 80 (27.12%) Social Skills
4 30 (10.17%) Legal
5 19 (6.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 17 (5.76%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.08%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.75%) Banking
9 12 (4.07%) Manufacturing
9 12 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (4.07%) Retail
10 10 (3.39%) Marketing
11 9 (3.05%) Local Government
12 7 (2.37%) Back Office
13 6 (2.03%) Billing
14 5 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.36%) Retail Banking
16 3 (1.02%) General Ledger
16 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.37%) D3.js
2 5 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.68%) PySpark
4 1 (0.34%) .NET
4 1 (0.34%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.34%) BREW
4 1 (0.34%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.42%) Credit Risk
2 15 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.37%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.37%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.36%) e-Health
8 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.02%) IoT
8 3 (1.02%) NHS
9 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.68%) Life Science
9 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.68%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.68%) Social Media
10 1 (0.34%) FMCG
10 1 (0.34%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (39.66%) Business Intelligence
2 95 (32.20%) Analytics
3 79 (26.78%) Data Analysis
4 66 (22.37%) Visualisation
5 57 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (14.24%) Data Management
6 42 (14.24%) Data Visualisation
7 39 (13.22%) Actionable Insight
8 38 (12.88%) Data Modelling
9 37 (12.54%) Data Governance
10 34 (11.53%) Migration
11 31 (10.51%) Agile
12 30 (10.17%) Data Analytics
13 29 (9.83%) Decision-Making
14 27 (9.15%) Data Cleansing
14 27 (9.15%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (8.81%) Dashboard Development
16 24 (8.14%) Data Migration
17 21 (7.12%) Data Extraction
18 18 (6.10%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 122 (41.36%) SQL
2 61 (20.68%) Python
3 19 (6.44%) R
4 7 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.36%) Groovy
5 4 (1.36%) Java
5 4 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.02%) VBA
7 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.34%) Tcl
8 1 (0.34%) VB
8 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (11.19%) Degree
2 17 (5.76%) SC Cleared
2 17 (5.76%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.34%) ACCA
4 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.34%) CIMA
4 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (17.63%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.76%) GDPR
2 17 (5.76%) QA
3 7 (2.37%) PMO
4 4 (1.36%) Good Clinical Practice
4 4 (1.36%) GxP
5 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (1.02%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 37 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.85%) Alteryx
3 29 (9.83%) Oracle
4 21 (7.12%) SAP
5 16 (5.42%) Salesforce
6 12 (4.07%) Atlassian
6 12 (4.07%) Splunk
7 11 (3.73%) Google
8 7 (2.37%) Databricks
8 7 (2.37%) Dataiku
8 7 (2.37%) Trillium
9 4 (1.36%) Denodo
9 4 (1.36%) IFS
10 3 (1.02%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.02%) Informatica
10 3 (1.02%) Refinitiv
11 2 (0.68%) Concur
11 2 (0.68%) Liquidlogic
11 2 (0.68%) Sage
11 2 (0.68%) Teradata